2yo lies/refuses to pee if he’d rather do something else
We are on week 2 of toilet training our 25month old. We did bottom-free time for a few days and now he is very good at telling us when he needs to pee or poo, will lead us to the bathroom for help with pulling down his pants/undies, and pee. We use a sticker reward system which he likes, and loves to put them in his “peepee book”. Every couple hours we also offer for him to go pee and he goes and does it.
However, what the problem is now is that our kiddo loves to go outside and play. So when he wants to go out we say time to go pee first, he says he doesn’t need to and refuses to sit on the toilet (like physically will jump off). But then a few minutes later will pee his pants because he’s been holding it in order to go out faster. Since we now have to change him he has a huge melt down.
He sometimes does the same when he’s focused on playing with his cars or something else he finds more fun than peeing on the toilet. Lies about not needing to pee or refuses to pee when we sit him on toilet, then a few minutes later has an accident.
We are tired of all the meltdowns related to this and of course don’t want to traumatize him. But we also don’t want him to learn that it’s okay to lie about peeing in order to get what he wants, especially since he’ll just have an accident anyways.
Thank you for your advice!